Harmony through values education in Australia

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From 2002 to 2008, values education was added to school curricula frameworks in Australia. Values education focuses on nine agreed values: Care and Compassion, Doing Your Best, Fair Go, Freedom, Honesty and Trustworthiness, Integrity, Respect, Responsibility, and Understanding, Tolerance, Inclusion. Over the period, curriculum resources were developed and the government released the National Framework for Values Education for Australian Schools. This paper focused on the theme of Harmony through values education. Connections are made between values education and the music teaching processes for the development and implementation of a music curriculum. Through content analysis of the policy and resources the authors discussed aspects relating to music education included in the teaching and learning units focused on the Arts key learning area. The agreed values have significance far beyond the classroom. These values are considered to be essential for the promotion and development of a h

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